Across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands, I lead the development of accessible photography activity for women photographers.

I create the conditions for people to make work, meet peers, and progress: identifying community needs, building partnerships, securing funding, and coordinating delivery — especially where confidence and access are barriers, and inclusion needs to be actively built.

Much of this work is delivered with guests artists and facilitators: I bring in specialist voices while I hold the overall framework. That includes shaping the programme vision, planning and budgets, scheduling, venue liaison, communications, participant care, and evaluation.

In practice, that means holding the detail so that facilitators and participants can fully focus on the work and the conversations.

Alongside regular peer connection, I curate and produce public outcomes such as talks, workshops and exhibitions: shaping the narrative around the work, supporting contributors to present with confidence, and creating welcoming spaces where participants feel seen and taken seriously.

This experience is a key foundation for my current R&D focus: developing a clearer, more robust women-centred leadership model — with practical tools for confidence-building, safer critique, care-based facilitation, and sustainable ways of working over the long term.